Scott McClellan’s Book
Has anyone noticed that CNN seems to be so highly critical of Scott McClellan’s newly released so-called “tell-all” book that they appear to be driving him to admit some sort of shame and remorse? Regarding the fact that McClellan was defending the Administration while he was press secretary, which everyone should think was his job, and is now revealing the truth, or as otherwise stated, his impressions and opinions, Wolf Blitzer asks: “Are you sorry? Do you want to say you're sorry to the American people? Do you want to apologize?” It is one in a long list of accusatory questions presented only as numbnuts Wolf can manage in what should have been an otherwise enlightening interview about this goddamn Administration that thinking people have come to realize cannot be trusted.
It is easy to find critics of the book, and CNN (I’m not sure about other networks, but would bet they are similar) has gone out of their way to dig them all up and have them repeat their condemnations redundantly, which is typical of most news networks. One condemnation is that he is “cashing in” on the position he held by writing the book now. Granted, he must be making some good bucks. So what? I do not find that nearly as offensive as this Administration, and its cronies, who are cashing in on the couple of trillion bucks of our tax dollars spent on a long, seemingly endless, bloody, destructive and meaningless war. How come CNN isn’t questioning that degree of “cashing in”? Nobody goes after anyone in high places anymore, just us poor slobs who don’t advertise on big network news shows. (Have you noticed who sponsors these big news shows on CNN? Coal, oil and natural gas companies, for instance, not to mention Lockheed Martin, Boeing and so on.)
The odd thing is that none of McClellan’s critics has yet accused him of lying or deceit in any manner. In other words there’s no denying what he has to say about the President and his henchmen is true. What he has been accused of is betrayal of and disloyalty to an Administration that itself has been deceitful and untruthful with the public. It seems McClellan’s real motivation is discovering, somewhere along the way, that he was being used and that his “loyalty” was being betrayed.
But hey, if nothing else, it’s one hell of an advertising campaign for his book.
